Interpreting Unfulfilled Prophecy

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 21, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 24.

Interpreting Unfulfilled Prophecy

Of fulfilled prophecy we may speak positively, strongly. Of unfulfilled prophecy we may by true principles of prophetic interpretation which God has clearly given in His Word, be safely led in the great main features, and be saved from serious mistakes, at least, in the details. As to the precise how and when of the fulfilment, the details, the minutia, it behooves the careful investigator to move slowly and wait God's providences. He is not by any means the surest interpreter of prophecy who aims to explain every sentence and clause of divine prediction which is yet to be fulfilled.